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Oscar Wilde Quotes

«Find expression for a sorrow, and it will become dear to you. Find an expression for joy, and you will intensify its ecstasy.»
«Fashion is the method by which the fantastic becomes for a moment universal.»
«Cultivated leisure is the aim of man.»
«What a fuss people make about fidelity! Why, even in love it is purely a question for physiology. It has nothing to do with our own will. Young men want to be faithful, and are not; old men want to be faithless, and cannot: that is all one can say.»
«Though one can dine in New York, one could not dwell there.»
«The gods bestowed on Max the gift of perpetual old age.»
«The Governor was strong upon/ The Regulations Act:/ The Doctor said that Death was but/ A scientific fact:/ And twice a day the Chaplain called,/ And left a little tract.»
«When critics disagree, the artist is in accord with himself.»
«Wordsworth went to the Lakes, but he was never a lake poet. He found in stones the sermons he had already hidden there.»
«Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry.»